An abridged, two-hour cut for international release has been shown for the world premiere at the 68th Venice International Film Festival, though Wei has stated that it diminishes his original vision. In keeping with the two-part domestic release, The China Post will review the film in two parts.

Mainland suspense-comedy gets released in a Cantonese version for southern audiences. Guangdong audiences have not been responsive to popular northern comedies such as those by Feng Xiaogang. Director Jiang Tao, who is himself Cantonese, oversaw the conversion for the Cantonese edition. (Sina)

Lau Ching-Wan, Denise Ho and Myolie Wu meet the press in Venice for Life Without Principle

Andy Lau celebrated an early birthday (his 50th, on Sept. 27) for the second year in a row in Venice. He had three wishes: a Best Director and Best Actress award for Ann Hui and Deanie Ip and one secret wish.

In other related news, Cecilia promoted her latest movie Treasure Hunt, which featured her eldest son Lucas.
The actress, who was there for only 10 minutes, slammed Wong Jing, the movie's scriptwriter cum director, for having a bad script, which resulted in Lucas changing his lines.

The former actress had also let on that Etta wanted to study in Harvard. In order to realise her daughter's dream, the pair had been living a thrifty lifestyle, by wearing simple clothing, eating economically, driving a fuel-saving car and living in a rural area.

Girl Next Door: Tang Wei was spotted in Beijing getting out a taxi with an assistant. She put on a surgical mask but took it off, apparently unused to wearing one. After going to a Traditional Chinese Medicine hospital, Tang Wei stopped at kiosk to have a snack of instant noodles and bottle of water before being picked up again by another taxi.